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Big tech executives headed to Capitol Hill for antitrust hearing next week

Donald Trump Elizabeth Warren WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Executives from Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc, Facebook Inc and Alphabet's Google will testify before a House congressional committee next week in a hearing to discuss the tremendous market power wielded by online platforms. In a statement on Tuesday, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee said witnesses would include Adam Cohen, director of economic policy at Google; Nate Sutton, associate general counsel for regulation at Amazon; Facebook's Matt Perault, head of global policy development and Apple vice president for corporate law Kyle Andeer. RELATED Kirsten Gillibrand TV ad hits Trump for 'broken promises' The hearing will be held July 16, the advisory said. Apple and Google did not respond to a request for comment. Amazon spokeswoman Jodi Seth said they will testify but did not share details. Facebook had no immediate comment. This comes as the House Judiciary Commi

Group Raises Awareness against Female Genital Mutilation

03/Jul/2019, Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo The Society for Life Changers and Good Parental Care (SOLIFE) has charged stakeholders in Osun State to beef up campaign against Female Genital Mutilation, (FGM) with the creation of community awareness to eradicate the practice. The Chairman, Board of Trustee, SOLIFE, Mr Aremu Stephen, who disclosed this at the opening ceremony of a three-day Camp Project for community based organisations and women groups in Osun State recently, said the rating of the state as number one on the hierarchy of the six FGM most endemic states was disturbing. He said: “Championing the intensive advocacy against female circumcision through the Camp Project meeting is to sensitise the people of the state on the dangers and disadvantages of FGM and to discourage the practice made paramount, based on the health risk associated with the practice, as well as the pattern and trend of medicalisation.” At the program funded by Positive Action for Girls and Women, Aremu de